{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-2011/article-120",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-2011/article-120.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2011/331",
  "legislation_title": "The Prisons and Young Offenders Institutions (Scotland) Rules 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/prisons-and-young-offenders-institutions-scotland-rules-2011",
  "path": "article/120",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "120",
  "heading": "Requests to speak to certain persons",
  "text": "(1) A prisoner may make a request to an officer to speak to—\n(a) a member of staff of the Scottish Administration;\n(b) an independent prison monitor;\n(c) a sheriff or a justice of the peace visiting the prison in terms of section 15 of the Act.\n(2) Where a prisoner makes a request under paragraph (1), the officer must, without delay—\n(a) record the request in writing; and\n(b) arrange for the request to be brought to the attention of the person with whom the prisoner wishes to speak.\n(3) A prisoner may write to an independent prison monitor and for that purpose the Governor must ensure that—\n(a) the prisoner is supplied with paper; and\n(b) the letter is posted, or otherwise delivered, to an independent prison monitor without delay.\n(4) A prisoner who requests to speak to a member of staff of the Scottish Administration under paragraph (1)(a) in order to make a complaint, must first exhaust all remedies available to the prisoner through the complaints procedure detailed in this Part.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Rule 120(1)(b) substituted (31.8.2015) by The Public Services Reform (Inspection and Monitoring of Prisons) (Scotland) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/39), arts. 1, 4(3)(a) (with art. 5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 120(3) substituted (31.8.2015) by The Public Services Reform (Inspection and Monitoring of Prisons) (Scotland) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/39), arts. 1, 4(3)(b) (with art. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2011/331/article/120",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:48:01.668993+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}